Q: Hi there, I am female, just been diagnose with herpes and I have sores around my vagina. It’s the time of the month for me now, I'm allergic to sanitary pads and I'm too sore to use a tampon. Please advice on what I should do.

A:
Herpes sores could be annoying and painful in some cases. On the positive side HSV-1 usually doesn't cause as many genital herpes outbreak as genital HSV-2.
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